Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed a $50.4 billion state budget that boosts funding for education from preschool through college, but was also forced to use his veto pen to dial back pay raises for lawmakers.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Gov. J.B. Pritzker holds the signed 2024 budget on June 7, 2023, at the Christopher House in Chicago's Belmont Cragin neighborhood.
Nevertheless, the governor and Democratic legislative leaders were unified Wednesday in presenting the spending plan as another step toward long-term fiscal stability for the state under Pritzker. Pritzker held the event at Christopher House, which provides child care, preschool and elementary education, among other services, to highlight his “Smart Start Illinois” initiative. The $250 million program is aimed at improving access to child care and early childhood education, a cornerstone of the spending plan the governor introduced in February.
All 19 GOP senators voted against the budget, and so did three Democrats: Sens. Patrick Joyce, of Reddick; Suzy Glowiak Hilton of Western Springs; and Doris Turner, of Springfield. “While this change may make it constitutional, it does not make it right,” she said. “House Republicans will continue to hold the majority party accountable to not only our constitutional rights but also to Illinois taxpayers.”McCombie’s Senate counterpart, GOP leader John Curran of Downers Grove, said in a statement that the spending plan uses “gimmicks ... in order to appear balanced on paper.”
“That’s, once again, one of those false things that Republicans like to say about the budget, but it is in the budget,” Pritzker said. Pritzker’s initial budget proposal in February pegged the cost of the program at $220 million, but subsequent projections put those costs closer to $1.1 billion, according to the governor’s administration.
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